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Janice Du Mont

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ProfessorSocial & Behavioural Health Sciences DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Janice Du Mont

Professor

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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28 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 10 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (4 SSHRC, 3 CIHR), most recently in 2019.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Research

Elder Abuse Health Services Intersectoral Intimate Partner Violence Knowledge Dissemination Knowledge Exchange Knowledge Translation Multidisciplinary

Latest papers

Intersections of mental health and sexual and reproductive health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods study of women and gender-diverse people with disabilities.
Women's health (London, England) · 2026
Providing care to domestically sex trafficked persons in the emergency department: a scoping review protocol.
BMJ open · 2026 · senior author
Healthcare Providers' Perceptions of Vulnerability to Domestic Sex Trafficking in Ontario: A Qualitative Study.
Health services insights · 2025 · senior author

All 79 publications

Latest funding

Implementing evidence-informed strategies to identify and respond to violence against women and gender diverse people in Canadian health systems
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$599,257
Supporting transgender and gender diverse survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence: Building knowledge to improve access to inclusive and equitable care
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
$108,500
Strengthening Toronto's response to violence against women: advancing an academic-community partnership to plan and mobilize an evidence-informed agenda
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$19,970

All 17 grants and awards

79 publications.

Intersections of mental health and sexual and reproductive health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods study of women and gender-diverse people with disabilities.

Zafar SK, Albanese CM, Evans M, Rego A, Welsh K, Ogbonna N, Barker LC, Berndl A, Du Mont J, Lunsky Y, McPherson AC, Rotenberg S, Tarasoff LA, Vandermorris A, Brown HK

Women's health (London, England)2026

DOI: 10.1177/17455057261466290 PMID: 42574296

Providing care to domestically sex trafficked persons in the emergency department: a scoping review protocol.

Liu KJ, Kosa SD, Brown H, Grewal K, Du Mont J

BMJ open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-118259 PMID: 42009384

Healthcare Providers' Perceptions of Vulnerability to Domestic Sex Trafficking in Ontario: A Qualitative Study.

Rogers C, Subramanium SV, Bruder R, Mason R, Du Mont J

Health services insights2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/11786329251348295 PMID: 40567357

Building knowledge to improve access to inclusive and equitable care for trans and gender-diverse survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence: a qualitative research protocol.

Toccalino D, Jonsa S, Yakubovich AR, Davies A, Kosa SD, Kelly CE, Macdonald S, Du Mont J

BMJ open2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090388 PMID: 39819937

Gender-Based Violence Among People With Disabilities: Qualitative Insights on Sexual and Reproductive Health Impacts Across the Life Course.

Liu KJ, Evans M, Ogbonna N, Welsh K, Rego A, Du Mont J, Brown HK

Journal of interpersonal violence2025

DOI: 10.1177/08862605251396811 PMID: 41369083

Canadian cross-sectional survey of healthcare, social and community service providers' capacity to respond to sex trafficked persons.

Forte T, Kosa SD, Macdonald S, Mason R, Du Mont J

BMJ open2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-094447 PMID: 41338624

Co‐Designing Peer Support for Women Labelled With Intellectual Disabilities Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence

Buettgen A, Bernasky T, MacDougall K, Schormans AF, Gordon J, Tavares S, Schiariti V, Mason R, Du Mont J, Huijbregts M

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities20251 citations

DOI: 10.1111/jar.70123

The mental health of survivors of violence against women who accessed supportive services during the COVID-19 pandemic: A narrative thematic analysis

Steele B, Shastri P, Moses C, Tremblay E, Arcenal M, O’Campo P, Mason R, Du Mont J, Hujbregts M, Sim A

Women's Health2025

DOI: 10.1177/17455057251338484

Exploring the experiences of wellbeing, health, and healthcare among women who have been domestically sex trafficked in Ontario, Canada: A qualitative study protocol.

Bruder R, Mason R, Williams CC, Du Mont J

PloS one2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299500 PMID: 38446788

Building a research agenda on preventing and addressing sexual assault and intimate partner violence against trans people: a two-stage priority-setting exercise.

Du Mont J, Cheung R, Burley JF, Kosa SD, Kelly CE, Jakubiec BAE, Brouillard-Coyle S, Macdonald S

Health research policy and systems2024First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12961-024-01245-0 PMID: 39696336

Implementing evidence-informed strategies to identify and respond to violence against women and gender diverse people in Canadian health systems

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Op. Grant: NWHRI: Innovation Fund - Healthcare implementation research

Principal investigators: Yakubovich, Alexa R; Wilson, Susan J

Keywords: Domestic Violence; Eastern Canada; Gender-Based Violence; Health Equity; Implementation Science; Intervention Research; Intimate Partner Violence; Mixed Methods; Sexual Violence; Violence Against Women

$599,257

Supporting transgender and gender diverse survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence: Building knowledge to improve access to inclusive and equitable care

SupervisorCIHR2023Health System Impact Fellowships - PostDoc Central Canada 2-year

Principal investigators: Toccalino, Danielle C

Keywords: Gender-Based Violence; Healthcare Access; Intimate Partner Violence; Sexual Assault; Transgender And Gender Diverse Persons

$108,500

Strengthening Toronto's response to violence against women: advancing an academic-community partnership to plan and mobilize an evidence-informed agenda

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Yakubovich, Alexa R; Shastri, Priya

Keywords: Academic-Community Partnership; Community-Based Research; Implementation Science; Intersectoral; Intervention Research; Intimate Partner Violence; Knowledge Mobilization; Mixed Methods; Toronto; Violence Against Women

$19,970

MARCO:POLO Marginalization & COVID-19: Promoting Opportunities for Learning & Outreach

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr.:Emerging COVID-19 Res. Gaps & Priorities (July 2021) - Urban Populations

Principal investigators: Bayoumi, Ahmed M; Boucher, Lisa M; Dodd, Zoe; Durbin, Anna; Firestone, Michelle; Hayman, Kate; Isaacs, Barry J; Kolla, Gillian; Matheson, Flora I; Steer, Lorie A; Yakubovich, Alexa R; Young, Samantha V

Keywords: Developmental Disabilities; Homelessness; Intersectionality; Marginalization; Opioid Agonist Therapy; Program Evaluation; Realist Analysis; Substance Use Services; Systems Theory; Violence Against Women

$313,804

Identifying and contextualizing best practices in responding to violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study of the experiences of staff and survivors in three Canadian provinces

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr.: Addr. Wider Impacts of COVID-Imp. on social/econ/pop iss/pbl outcomes

Principal investigators: Yakubovich, Alexa R

Keywords: Community-Based Participatory Research; Domestic Violence; Eastern Canada; Gender-Based Violence; Health Equity; Implementation Science; Intervention Research; Intimate Partner Violence; Mixed-Methods; Violence Against Women

$499,647

Impact of COVID-19 on women and girls with disabilities in Canada: A life course perspective

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr: Emer. COVID Res. Gaps/Prior- Dif. Impacts on Hist. Excl/Underserved Pops

Principal investigators: Brown, Hilary; Abbas, Jihan; Brayton, Bonnie L

Keywords: Child Health; Covid-19; Disability; Maternal Health; Reproductive Health; Sexual Health

$227,923

Mobilizing Partnerships to Advance a Provincial Intersectoral Network on Trans-Affirming Practice to Support Sexual Assault Survivors - the trans-LINK Project

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Du Mont, Janice A.

Keywords: transgender (trans); sexual violence; intersectoral collaboration; networking; knowledge transfer and exchange

$200,000

Building an Intersectoral Network on Trans-Affirming Practice to Support Sexual Assault Survivors

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Du Mont, Janice A.

Keywords: transgender (trans); sexual violence; intersectoral collaboration; networking; knowledge transfer and exchange

$46,612

Working at the intersections of elder abuse and violence against women sectors: an interdisciplinary forum of international leaders to advance research, policy and practice

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Du Mont, Janice A.

Keywords: elder abuse; violence against older women; intersectoral collaboration; domestic abuse in later life; knowledge transfer and exchange

$24,796

Advancing a Model Elder Abuse Intervention: Knowledge Exchange, Translation, and Transfer

Nominated PICIHR2015Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Du Mont, Janice A; Macdonald, Sheila

Keywords: Elder Abuse; Intersectoral; Intimate Partner Violence; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Exchange; Knowledge Translation; Multidisciplinary; Neglect / Maltreatment; Physical Abuse; Sexual Abuse

$9,951

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Elder Abuse Dear Professor Du Mont, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Intersections of mental health and sexual and reproductive health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods study of women and gender-diverse people with disabilities." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Mobilizing Partnerships to Advance a Provincial Intersectoral Network on Trans-Affirming Practice to Support Sexual Assault Survivors - the trans-LINK Project" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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Janice Du Mont

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Intersections of mental health and sexual and reproductive health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods study of women and gender-diverse people with disabilities.

Providing care to domestically sex trafficked persons in the emergency department: a scoping review protocol.

Healthcare Providers' Perceptions of Vulnerability to Domestic Sex Trafficking in Ontario: A Qualitative Study.

Building knowledge to improve access to inclusive and equitable care for trans and gender-diverse survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence: a qualitative research protocol.

Gender-Based Violence Among People With Disabilities: Qualitative Insights on Sexual and Reproductive Health Impacts Across the Life Course.

Canadian cross-sectional survey of healthcare, social and community service providers' capacity to respond to sex trafficked persons.

Co‐Designing Peer Support for Women Labelled With Intellectual Disabilities Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence

The mental health of survivors of violence against women who accessed supportive services during the COVID-19 pandemic: A narrative thematic analysis

Exploring the experiences of wellbeing, health, and healthcare among women who have been domestically sex trafficked in Ontario, Canada: A qualitative study protocol.

Building a research agenda on preventing and addressing sexual assault and intimate partner violence against trans people: a two-stage priority-setting exercise.

Implementing evidence-informed strategies to identify and respond to violence against women and gender diverse people in Canadian health systems

Supporting transgender and gender diverse survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence: Building knowledge to improve access to inclusive and equitable care

Strengthening Toronto's response to violence against women: advancing an academic-community partnership to plan and mobilize an evidence-informed agenda

MARCO:POLO Marginalization & COVID-19: Promoting Opportunities for Learning & Outreach

Identifying and contextualizing best practices in responding to violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study of the experiences of staff and survivors in three Canadian provinces

Impact of COVID-19 on women and girls with disabilities in Canada: A life course perspective

Mobilizing Partnerships to Advance a Provincial Intersectoral Network on Trans-Affirming Practice to Support Sexual Assault Survivors - the trans-LINK Project

Building an Intersectoral Network on Trans-Affirming Practice to Support Sexual Assault Survivors

Working at the intersections of elder abuse and violence against women sectors: an interdisciplinary forum of international leaders to advance research, policy and practice

Advancing a Model Elder Abuse Intervention: Knowledge Exchange, Translation, and Transfer

Frequent collaborators

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Robin Mason

Ilene Hyman

Patricia O’Campo

Gillian Einstein

Gillian Einstein

Emery Potter

Kathleen Armstrong

Amanda Sim

Frances Recknor

Hannah Kia

Ted Myers

Christine Sheppard

Laura Tamblyn Watts

Ashley Vandermorris

Keerat Grewal

Yona Lunsky

Yona Lunsky

Tony Antoniou

Alexis Buettgen

Lynn McDonald